Useful for chocolate and cocoa applications, but it does not specify whiskey style, proof, dose, or preparation.
A practitioner pairing recommendation within the ingredient matrix.
The cocoa section lists whiskey among cocoa’s best pairings, alongside coffee, caramel, nuts, mushroom, cauliflower, red wine, and dried fruit.
printed p. 74 / local PDF sheet 292
Cocoa — best pairings
2026-09-28: Fresh full-text and page-survey check at PDF 292. Generic whiskey is the author's pairing suggestion, not an American-whiskey-specific experimental result. Verification concerns faithful source representation, not independent validation. Original source retains a material visual-layout gap.
September 28 — Audit Qualification
2026-09-28: Fresh full-text and page-survey check at PDF 292. Generic whiskey is the author's pairing suggestion, not an American-whiskey-specific experimental result. Verification concerns faithful source representation, not independent validation. Original source retains a material visual-layout gap.
Verified excerpt record from The Flavor Matrix.
Evidence
The cocoa section lists whiskey among cocoa’s best pairings, with coffee, caramel, nuts, mushroom, cauliflower, red wine, and dried fruit.
Locator
printed p. 74 / local PDF sheet 292
Research use
Supports a cocoa–whiskey tasting hypothesis; the source does not specify style, proof, dose, or preparation.
Verification
Checked against the extracted text and sequential rendered review of the supplied local PDF on 2026-08-27. Linked to LIT-59 and CLM-52.